Part B News Features
Question: We were told that we need to contact the patient’s primary care provider (PCP) before we perform epidural steroid injections (ESI) for Medicare patients. It’s hard to get the PCP... More
Recent changes mandated by Congress and CMS that boost the status of physician assistants (PA) — or physician associates, as some groups prefer — is another sign that the providers formerl... More
The codes for fine needle aspiration (FNA) and biopsy of skin lesions received a major update in the 2019 CPT manual. The update revised FNA code 10021 to become a primary code for a new add-on code... More
Question: We were told that we need to contact the patient’s primary care provider (PCP) before we perform epidural steroid injections (ESI) for Medicare patients. It’s hard to get the PCP... More
Recent changes mandated by Congress and CMS that boost the status of physician assistants (PA) — or physician associates, as some groups prefer — is another sign that the providers formerl... More
The codes for fine needle aspiration (FNA) and biopsy of skin lesions received a major update in the 2019 CPT manual. The update revised FNA code 10021 to become a primary code for a new add-on code... More
Tools
Bring your staff up to date on the ICD-10-CM code changes that went into effect April 1.
DecisionHealth has revised its tool for office/other outpatient E/M visits (99202-99215) to include encounters performed in the inpatient or observation (99221-99223 and 99231-99236), emergency department (99281-99285), nursing facility (99304-99310) and home or residence (99341-99350) settings and consults (99242-99245 and 99252-99255).
Benchmark of the Week
The codes for fine needle aspiration (FNA) and biopsy of skin lesions received a major update in the 2019 CPT manual. The update revised FNA code 10021 to become a primary code for a new add-on code and replaced three outgoing codes with 16 new codes.
Notwithstanding the pandemic waivers of the three-day rule, nursing facility E/M and discharge codes, used by skilled nursing facilities, mostly took a hit during the public health emergency (PHE). As noted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, there was a decline in SNF admissions during that period, though the length of SNF stays and spending increased.

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